auction

In a significant development, the Punjab government withdrew the notifications on mining auction on Thursday without clearance from the state environment impact assessment authority (SEIAA), in operational quarries of up to five hectares. With this, the state's recent notification for auction of 115 quarries in 19 districts will also stand withdrawn.

The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday directed the director general National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to initiate a probe into cutting of hundreds of green trees for widening the Chashma Road Project at Dera Ismail Khan and book those found guilty.